Comment: Please review the video, it is great about the heavy metal poisoning from mining : http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2009/12/23/2779844.htm
By Linda Hunt
Updated Tue Feb 23, 2010 7:58am AEDT
A leaked report shows a mining company removed a family from a home in Rosebery on Tasmania's West Coast because of lead contamination.
It happened 12 months before other residents raised questions about toxic water pools in their backyards.
The report obtained by the ABC is an environmental management plan review by the former Rosebery mine owners, Oz Minerals.
It states that two years ago, lead levels in a group of siblings were increasing and the family was moved from the house.
The mine paid for family possessions to be cleaned and an area of elevated soil in the family's backyard was concreted.
The mine's current owner MMG says flooding caused zinc and lead concentrate contained in old sumps to wash into the Howard Street property adjacent to the mine.
The document obtained by the ABC challenges claims by MMG that it has done no environmental sampling to investigate allegations of heavy metal poisoning.
28 current and former Rosebery residents claim the local mine is making them ill.
Read more:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/23/2827271.htm
